The constant evolution of the ways to invest foreign capitals in the marketplace has urged the need for defining the boundaries of the notion of investment, provided that Article 25 of the ICSID Convention is silent on this point. Against this background, the question of whether the intangible...

Empirical research in finance has documented a strong positive and convex relationship between investment performance and flows in and out of managed portfolios such as mutual funds. It is also well-known that fee contracts for portfolio managers give the manager a fixed-fraction of assets under...

Ziel dieses Lehrtextes ist es, die Elemente einer betriebswirtschaftlich orientierten Entscheidungslehre weiter zu homogenisieren, d.h., die gemeinsamen Strukturen ihrer Modelle und deren Lösungsprinzipien zu verdeutlichen. Nach einigen grundlegenden Überlegungen zu deterministischen...